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Let's learn about natural disasters. After reading through some informational texts, students will use their close reading skills to answer questions about different types of disasters.

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Informational Text: Close Reading

This lesson will help students identify the author's point of view and purpose for writing an informational text.

examining authors purpose in a nonfiction text

Examining Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text

Text formatting can add a lot of richness to how information is explained. In this lesson students will explore the organization of nonfiction texts and go on a scavenger hunt for different kinds of text formatting features. 

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Formatting Nonfiction Text

This fun combination of scavenger hunt and bingo is sure to please young learners. Not only will your students increase their knowledge of text features, they'll also enjoy a selection of engaging games.

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Searching for Text Features

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

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Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Improve your students' comprehension of non-fictional reading through this lesson that teaches them about text features. Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.

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Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

Ever wondered how to explain what an index is to a 6 year old? Look no further! Use this engaging lesson to help your students become text feature experts.

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What's in a Text Feature?

Jazz up your nonfiction reading and add a little color! Use this lesson with your students to teach them to cite text evidence as they answer questions by color coding. 

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Color Coding Nonfiction Text

By analzying picture books, students will make connections between the text and the illustrations of a story. They will compare and contrast the text and the illustrations and reflect upon how they impact their comprehension of a text.

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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Connecting Text and Illustrations

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

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Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text

Students will read a short fictional story and discuss why the author included certain details and words. Use this lesson to help your students navigate parts of fictional text to determine the author's purpose!  

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Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text

Not all nonfiction texts on the same topic are created equal! Using this lesson plan, your class will become familiar with nonfiction features by comparing and contrasting texts on a shared topic. 


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Comparing Nonfiction Text Features

Teach your students how to use timelines to organize information from nonfiction texts.


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Timelines and Nonfiction Text

When students read nonfiction texts, they will need to make inferences using text features and quotes as evidence. Support your students using short texts as practice before diving into more complex materials like textbooks.

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Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts

Give your students practice with inferences using short fictional texts before asking them to apply the skill to a longer text of their choice.

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Inferences in Fictional Texts

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

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What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women's sports.

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Let's Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts!

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

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Detective Reading

Students will have fun learning the Read, Draw, Write (RDW) strategy on two-step, mixed operation problems. First they will learn RDW, and then they will practice it in a game called Four in a Row.

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Two-Step Word Problems with Mixed Operations - Gamified!

Give your students practice explaining how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.  With these sports-themed texts, students will make inferences about the author and use text evidence to prove it.

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What's the Point?

Cesar Chavez is a perfect example of a champion for social justice. Students will refine inference skills by using background knowledge and evidence from the text, while also discovering an important American civil rights activist. 

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Inferences in Nonfiction Texts: Cesar Chavez and Farmworker Rights

Is that fact important, or is it just interesting? Use this lesson to help your students determine importance in nonfiction text. 

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Determining Importance

Your students have probably heard of both Mickey Mouse and Ironman, but have they ever compared and contrasted them? This lesson engages students in a fun double bubble map activity while helping them learn about internal character traits.

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Comparing Two Characters

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

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Close Reading: Introduction

Good readers analyze texts by looking at similarities and differences. Use this lesson to teach your students to compare and contrast the story elements of two fiction texts.

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Finding Similarities and Differences

What’s the deal with all of those text features? Use this handy lesson plan to help your second graders answer that very question. 

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How Many Features?

Get ready to develop important comprehension skills! Students will read different informational passages and learn to identify the main idea. They will then use their knowledge of main ideas to write their own informational passages. 

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How to Find the Main Idea

Shape up your students' understanding of geometrical attributes with this hands-on math lesson. Students will gain a better understanding of how to describe a shape by the number of edges and vertices it has, rather than by its name.

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2-D Shapes

What is the cause, and what is the effect? Use this resource to teach your students how to identify examples of cause and effect in nonfiction text.

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